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Readers Speak Out on Merits
Of Bowl Championship Series

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Steve McKee Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Dec. 12, 2001 11:56 a.m. ET

The Fix isn't stupid. It knows a good conversation starter when it sees one, and this is a good one: the Bowl Championship Series. "You have to understand one thing regarding the West Coast Rose Bowl," writes Fix reader Christopher Viola of Tuesday's Bill Plaschke article in the Los Angeles Times. "Not having the actual Rose Bowl game on the same day as the parade and not watching the sun go down over the mountains on a day that is responsible for 30,000 people migrating to California is very hard to swallow. I for one thought the National Championship game would be a great thing for the Rose Bowl....